Mass Murdering Muslim Major Worked to Assist Obama’s Transition Team Through University Project

In 2008 The George Washington University Homeland Security Institute (HSPI) initiated a transition task force to help craft homeland security policies during Obama’s transition period. In May of 2009 HSPI finished its report titled, “Thinking Anew-Security Priorities for the Next Administration.” One of the members of this Obama transition project was none other than the Muslim murderer Nidal Hassan. (emphasis added) [Wow, imagine that…ed]

American Muslims express fear, frustration after Ft. Hood shootings

The news made Nihad Awad sick to his stomach. Like the rest of the nation, Awad, who heads the Council on American-Islamic Relations, learned this week that it allegedly was a Muslim who opened fire at a U.S. Army base in Texas, killing 13 people and injuring many more. According to witnesses, Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan issued the great, exalting cry of his faith before opening fire: “Allahu akbar!” God is great. (SNIP) Awad’s Washington-based group, known as CAIR, noted that it had launched an anti-terrorism petition drive and a TV ad campaign against religious extremism, and coordinated an anti-terrorism fatwa, or religious ruling, condemning extremism and terrorism. [Funny how these muslim groups aways express “fear” when one of their own murders and maims yet they never express SHAME. BTW, the FBI is actively investigating this CAIR group because of evidence they finance terrorism. What a shock!…ed]

The Hole at the Heart of Our Strategy

Thirteen dead and 31 wounded would be a bad day for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, and a great victory for the Taliban. When it happens in Texas, in the heart of the biggest military base in the nation, at a processing center for soldiers either returning from or deploying to combat overseas, it is not merely a “tragedy” (as too many people called it) but a glimpse of a potentially fatal flaw at the heart of what we have called, since 9/11, the “War on Terror.” Brave soldiers trained to hunt down and kill America’s enemy abroad were killed in the safety and security of home by, in essence, the same enemy — a man who believes in and supports everything the enemy does. And he’s a U.S. Army major. (SNIP) But we never make any effort to delineate the line which separates “radical Islam” from non-radical Islam. Indeed, we go to great lengths to make it even fuzzier. And somewhere in that woozy blur the pathologies of a Nidal Malik Hasan incubate. [The American people have had this politically correct crap rammed down their throats long enough. Call a spade a spade or continue to have innocent folks murdered at the hands of the religion of pieces…ed]

George W. Bush Visits Fort Hood, Wounded Soldiers

Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, visited wounded soldiers and their families near the site of the worst mass shooting on an Army post in the United States. The Bushes made their private visit to Fort Hood’s Darnall Army Medical Center on Friday night. Bush spokesman David Sherzer said in an e-mail that the couple thanked Fort Hood’s military leaders and hospital staff for the “amazing care they are providing.” [Unlike the current CIC, for all his faults Bush always really did care about the troops…ed]

Broader Measure of U.S. Unemployment Stands at 17.5%

For all the pain caused by the Great Recession, the job market still was not in as bad shape as it had been during the depths of the early 1980s recession — until now. With the release of the jobs report on Friday, the broadest measure of unemployment and underemployment tracked by the Labor Department has reached its highest level in decades. If statistics went back so far, the measure would almost certainly be at its highest level since the Great Depression. In all, more than one out of every six workers — 17.5 percent — were unemployed or underemployed in October. The previous recorded high was 17.1 percent, in December 1982. [Until these unemployment numbers start dropping as quickly as Obama’s poll numbers the American people aren’t gonna buy the story that our economy is starting to turn around…ed]

How many more jobs will Obama kill?

Unemployment has hit 10.2 percent, the highest level since the 1983 recession. Obama administration officials will no doubt try to spin this latest bad economic news by noting that unemployment is typically a “lagging indicator.” That was true in the old days, but it won’t cut it in the age of the global economy and Internet-driven 24/7 news cycle. Unemployment may now be something of a leading indicator because business executives make decisions about whether to invest in new jobs much more quickly and based on vastly more data. (SNIP) It’s time for Obama and Democratic congressional leaders Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to step back from their radical plans to vastly expand federal power, spending, deficits and taxes, and instead reach out to conservatives in both parties who understand how to make the economy grow with tax cuts, reduced bureaucracy, and lower government spending. [Everyone knows what it takes to create real jobs and get our economy moving again. The problem is George Soros owns the Democrat Party lock stock and barrel and we know how much he hates America. Lucky for him he has managed to get like minded people in positions of leadership in this country…ed]

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Combat political correctness: Go on the offensive

Political correctness, (PC) is conforming to political/social expectations. These new expectations have been socially engineered by the elites who want to transform our society. It is a Marxist technique to undermine western values. In the extreme political correctness is the demand of a totalitarian state to follow the party line. Political correctness has been a powerful tool to prevent citizens from speaking and hearing the truth. By the use of media propaganda pitting one group against another and indoctrinating children with television and in youth groups has made particular subjects taboo. The PC re-education takes place daily in our schools and universities. It has changed the cultural complexion of America. The practice of “Political Correctness” will gradually transform the cultural complexion of any society. [In light of the Fort Hood massacre this article would certainly be something we should all take a moment to read…ed]

Hmm. Can’t imagine what Major Malik Nadal Hasan’s motivation could have been

I was watching BBC’s Newsnight when the story broke of a killing spree at a Texas military base and instantly wondered – as I’m sure did 99.99 per cent of its other viewers – whether this had anything to do with the Religion of Peace. Then a news update came in that the suspect’s name was ‘Hasan’. But the BBC’s reporter hastened to reassure us that there was “no evidence” to suggest this was an act of “terrorism”. Phew! Perish the unworthy thought. Even today, the MSM is treading on eggshells regarding the killer’s possible motivation. [Screw political correctness. Fanatical muslims have infiltrated many segments of our society and they have chosen to declare war with our way of life. Many families were impacted by what happened at Fort Hood and there is only one group who is responsible for the carnage so let’s knock off this beating around the bush bullshit…ed]

Jobless rate tops 10 pct. for first time since ’83

The unemployment rate has hit double digits for the first time since 1983 — and is likely to go higher. The 10.2 percent jobless rate for October shows how weak the economy remains even though it is growing. The rising jobless rate could threaten the recovery if it saps consumers’ confidence and makes them more cautious about spending as the holiday season approaches. The October unemployment rate — reflecting nearly 16 million jobless people — jumped from 9.8 percent in September, the Labor Department said Friday. The job losses occurred across most industries, from manufacturing and construction to retail and financial. Economists say the unemployment rate could surpass 10.5 percent next year because employers are reluctant to hire. [So much for the “economic recovery” the Obama administration is trying to peddle. The much more accurate U-6 unemployment figure is right around 17%…ed]

Storming the Capitol

Thousands of protestors gathered on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol today and lined up outside House and Senate office buildings to protest Democrats’ health care legislation. The crowd, chanting “Kill the Bill,” “Throw Them Out,” and “Hear us Now,” listened to speeches by Rep. Michelle Bachman, who organized the event, as well as Reps. Tom Price, Eric Cantor, Michael Burgess, John Shaddegg, Marsha Blackburn, Joe Wilson, talk show host Mark Levin, among others. Here’s a sampling of some of the photos I snapped at the event. [Telling how when conservatives protest they don’t get arrested and they don’t trash the area…ed]

Owens Breaks 4 Campaign Promises in first hour in Congress

Congressman-elect Bill Owens was sworn in at noon today. Owens indicated in a press release released shortly afterwards that he was now in favor of the the “Affordable Healthcare for America Act” bill in direct contrast to his earlier position during the election campaign. According to Politico.com, Mr. Owens assured voters that he felt the public option had no place in the health care reform bill. Contrary to that position, Mr. Owens now indicates that he intends to vote in favor of the bill even though it now contains a public option. [What a shock to discover that a slimeball Democrat lied while on the campaign trail. It looks like this Owens fella took a page directly out of the Obama playbook now doesn’t it?…ed]

The myth of ’08, demolished

Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sure, it makes it easier for resurgent Republicans to raise money and recruit candidates for 2010. But the most important effect of Tuesday’s elections is historical. It demolishes the great realignment myth of 2008. (SNIP) This was all ridiculous from the beginning. The ’08 election was a historical anomaly. A uniquely charismatic candidate was running at a time of deep war weariness, with an intensely unpopular Republican president, against a politically incompetent opponent, amid the greatest financial collapse since the Great Depression. And still he won by only seven points. [’08 was nothing more than the Democrats giddy ‘American Idol’ moment. Now that reality has set in everyone realizes Obama pulled a Milli Vanilli on us…ed]

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Notes left behind: The heartbreaking messages a six-year-old cancer victim hid for her family to find after she died

These are the heartbreaking notes a six-year-old cancer victim hid for her family to find after she died. Elena Desserich was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer when she was just five years old. During her nine-month struggle with the illness, Elena, from Wyoming, hid hundreds of notes between the pages of books, in cupboards, drawers, bags, and clothes stashed away for the winter. She died in August 2007 – but her parents Keith, 34, and Brooke, 35, and her younger sister Gracie, who was five at the time, say they have been finding the notes and drawings she left behind ever since. [Try and get through this story without getting choked up. Thank goodness her mother didn’t decide to abort this child or we never would have had the opportunity to read about this remarkable little girl…ed]

12 Soldiers Killed and 31 Wounded in Fort Hood Shooting

Twelve people have been killed and 31 wounded in a shooting spree at a Texas military base by what officials believe was possibly carried out by an Army officer. The suspected gunman was identified by ABC News as Major Malik Nadal Hasan. The shooter was killed and two other suspects, who are also soldiers, have been apprehended, Lt. Gen. Robert W. Cone said. The gunman used two handguns, Cone said. He wasn’t sure if the shooter reloaded the weapons during the attack. [Note the name of the dead guy who started this killing spree. Still waiting for the names of the other two…ed]

In U.S., Majority Now Say Obama’s Policies “Mostly Liberal”

A majority of Americans now see President Barack Obama as governing from the left. Specifically, 54% say his policies as president have been mostly liberal while 34% call them mostly moderate. This contrasts with public expectations right after Obama’s election a year ago, when as many expected him to be moderate as to be liberal. [The “no shit Sherlock” post of the day…ed]

Speaker Pelosi’s Government-Run Health Plan Will Require a Monthly Abortion Premium

Health care reform should not be used as an opportunity to use federal funds to pay for elective abortions. Health reform should be an opportunity to protect human life – not end it. Unfortunately, Speaker Pelosi’s 2,032-page government takeover of health care does just that. On line 17, p. 110, section 222 under “Abortions for which Public Funding is Allowed” the Health and Human Services Secretary is given the authority to determine when abortion is allowed under the government-run plan. The Speaker’s plan also requires that at least one insurance plan offered in the Exchange covers abortions. What is even more alarming is that a monthly abortion premium will be charged of all enrollees in the government-run plan. It’s right there on line 16, page 96, section 213, under “Insurance Rating Rules.” The premium will be paid into a U.S. Treasury account – and these federal funds will be used to pay for the abortion services. [If only Nancy Pelosi’s mother had made the choice to abort her perhaps we would not have this kind of garbage showing up in unconstitutional legislation…ed]

The Madness of Queen Nancy

It’s one thing to be serene under fire, it’s another to be delusional. More than a few Democrats in Congress are perplexed and worried that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is insisting on ramming through a 1,900-page health care bill on Saturday, just days after her party took heavy losses in Tuesday’s elections. “It reminds me of Major Nicholson, the obsessed British major in the film ‘Bridge on the River Kwai,'” one Democrat told me. “She is fixated on finishing her health care bridge even as she’s lost sight of where it’s going and what damage it could cause to her own troops.” Indeed, the Speaker’s take on Tuesday’s off-year elections struck some of her own members as delusive “happy talk.” “From our perspective, we won last night,” a cheerful Ms. Pelosi told reporters, citing her party’s pick-up of a single House seat in a New York special election and retention of another strongly Democratic seat in California. [Clearly Democrat leaders missed the message voters sent out the other night in New Jersey and Virginia and their continuing to push forward a very unpopular agenda will certainly cost the party dearly in 2010 and probably 2012 as well. Cool…ed]

Democrats’ Plan to Help ‘Uninsurables’ Requires 6-Month Wait

You’re afraid your cancer is back, and a health insurance company just turned you down. Under the health care bills in Congress, you could apply for coverage through a new high-risk pool that President Barack Obama promises would immediately start serving patients with pre-existing medical problems. Wait a second. Read the fine print. You may have to be uninsured for six months to qualify. “If you are a cancer patient and have cancer now, you can’t wait six months to go into a plan because your condition can go from bad to death,” said Stephen Finan, a policy expert with the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. He called the waiting period in the Senate bill “unacceptable.” [More info on “the fine print” the Democrats certainly don’t want us to know about. It’s time to scrap this whole thing and start from scratch!…ed]

‘Permanent Democratic majority’ begins to unravel

America’s “permanent Democratic majority” ran smack into the economy’s apparent “new normal” of high unemployment and big deficits. Score one for the economy — and for Republicans. Now the Democratic spin on losing the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey is this: All politics are local. A weak candidate in one state, an unpopular governor in the other. Plus voters are cranky about the economy. No broader conclusions should be drawn. Now let’s move forward and go pass healthcare, OK, America? But the political reality is not nearly that sunny for Democrats’ political fate or the Obama domestic agenda. Jon Corzine lost in deep-blue New Jersey — a state Candidate Obama won by nearly 15 percentage points — despite outspending Republican opponent Chris Christie by some three to one. And not only did Republican Bob McDonnell lead a GOP landslide sweep of major offices in swing-state Virginia, his 344,000-vote victory came against an opponent he defeated by just 360 votes in 2005 for attorney general. [The Democrat Party has been taken over by far left lunatics and it took all of about 10 seconds for them to overreach once they had the White House and both houses of Congress. The majority of the American people do not want what these socialist/marxist rats are selling and the revolt is just beginning…ed]

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ELEMENTARY EPIDEMIC: 11 Uncovered Videos Show School Children Performing Praises to Obama

Big Hollywood has already posted a couple disturbing videos of young school children singing/speaking praises to President Obama, but when eleven more dropped in our email box it came as quite a shock. What seemed like an aberration now appears to be a troubling pattern. Maybe “epidemic” is a better word. Each one of the videos below is creepier than the last because the further down you go, the younger the children — brace yourself for kindergartners – except for the last and most disturbing video, which you have to see to believe. [Just in case anyone you know was wondering how deeply this cult of Obama (peace prize be upon him) has sunk into our public school system here’s a whole bunch of videos you can pass on to family and friends…ed]

Health Care Reform Assumes Millions Would Pay Fine Rather Than Get Coverage

The health care reform bill awaiting debate in the House assumes millions of workers and employers would rather pay $167 billion in fines than purchase or provide adequate coverage, according to a recent analysis, raising questions about whether the plan does enough to make insurance affordable. Though the bill is estimated to expand coverage from the current 83 percent to 96 percent of legal U.S. residents, the windfall of projected penalty payments also exposes a potential contradiction in reform. A significant part of the plan to expand coverage relies financially on fines from the uninsured. [“Little issues” like this are why Pelosi and Reid are in such a big hurry to ram this garbage through as quick as they can with as little scrutiny as possible…ed]

White House downplays Election Day

Heated referendums over same-sex partnership laws in Maine and Washington powered voter turnouts today in an off-year election that included closely watched races in New Jersey, Virginia and New York. Pundits were debating what the results could mean for President Obama, who campaigned for Democrats in governors’ races in New Jersey and Virginia and in an upstate New York congressional race. But the White House sought to put some distance between the president and the outcome. “We don’t look at either of the gubernatorial races or the congressional race as something that portends a lot for our legislative efforts going forward or our political prospects in 2010,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said at his daily briefing. [Baghdad Bob Gibbs says the ass kicking the Democrats received in New Jersey and Virginia were really no big whoop and certainly no reflection of the hard left policies of the Obama (peace prize be upon him) administration. Sure thing there ‘Bob’ especially after the effort Obama (peace prize be upon him) put in campaigning for the Democrats in those states. Come to think of it, it seems like just yesterday when Obama (peace prize be upon him) pushed hard for the Summer Olympics to come to Chicago only to have the city get booted out of the running in the very first round…ed]

Forget the 2-1 Spin; It Was a Rout

The Democrats did not lose a 2-1 squeaker last night. They lost two huge races, saw an overall evaporation of 25 basis points of support — and lost by nearly 500,000 cumulative votes in the three high-profile elections. Or put another way, Republicans won two races decided by millions of voters — and Democrats won a small race dominated by party operatives. In addition, the GOP made some historic gains in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Washington state special elections to boot. In the context of Bob McDonnell’s huge win in Virginia and Chris Christie’s surprisingly comfortable win in New Jersey, of all places, the fact that Bill Owens scraped up enough votes to win NY-23 is a testament to the superior political insider maneuvering of the Democrats over the Republicans. So you mean the GOP party apparatus stinks? Well yes, but I think we knew that already. [The Americanthinker.com post of the day…ed]

Revenge of the middle class

The elections today should send a simple message to the Obama administration and congressional Democrats: You lost the middle class, and you won’t get them back until you fundamentally change your legislative agenda. During last year’s campaign, President Barack Obama consistently stressed how his policies were going to help the middle class. (SNIP) Obama won the middle class (or at least did better than he should have) in the last election, and that is one of the most important reasons why he won the election. Now, a year into his presidency, the middle class is turning on the Obama administration, and more importantly, the Democrats in Congress. [The last presidential election showed the world the U.S. is not a racist country. The elections last night showed the Democrats we aren’t a bunch of wild eyed socialists either…ed]

The Obama magic has faded

All politics is local, they say, and Tuesday’s off-off-year elections certainly had their local angles. Jon Corzine has been a terrible governor even by the undemanding standards of terribly governed New Jersey. Creigh Deeds, though he looked good to Democratic Party recruiters not long ago, turned out to be an undistinguished campaigner, more driven by the concerns of Washington Post editorialists than of Virginia voters. And NY-23 Republican nomineee Dede Scozzafava was a bizarre choice, bizarre enough to inspire a seemingly quixotic third-party run by Doug Hoffman. But these local angles weren’t enough to keep the Obama administration out of the races. President Obama barnstormed Virginia and New Jersey — and pumped money and Joe Biden into NY-23 in support of Democratic candidate Bill Owens. (One suspects Owens would have preferred more money and less Biden.) And — until it started looking as if they might lose — the Obama people were suggesting that these races would seal their mandate and encourage congressional wafflers to toe the line on health-care reform. Not so much, as it turns out. In fact, the elections underscored Obama’s political weakness just one year after his triumphant victory over Republican moderate John McCain. [I doubt the magic has faded so much as the room is finally starting to clear out after the short lived Obama (peace prize be upon him) smoke and mirrors show…ed]

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Al Gore could become world’s first carbon billionaire

Last year Mr Gore’s venture capital firm loaned a small California firm $75m to develop energy-saving technology. The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient. The deal appeared to pay off in a big way last week, when the Energy Department announced $3.4 billion in smart grid grants, the New York Times reports. Of the total, more than $560 million went to utilities with which Silver Spring has contracts. The move means that venture capital company Kleiner Perkins and its partners, including Mr Gore, could recoup their investment many times over in coming years. Few people have been as vocal about the urgency of global warming and the need to reinvent the way the world produces and consumes energy as Mr Gore. And few have put as much money behind their advocacy and are as well positioned to profit from this green transformation, if and when it comes. [This article is posted in case you were wondering why this guy who got a D in his college science class keeps vigorously pushing this climate change nonsense. It’s all about the money with Al Bore who burns more energy in his Tennessee mansion every month than the average American family does in about eight years ..ed]

Clinton wishes he had left White House “in a coffin”

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said on Monday he would have preferred to leave the White House in a coffin because he loved being commander in chief, but signaled his political life was over. “It’s good that we have a (term) limit. Otherwise I would have stayed until I was carried away in a coffin. Or defeated in an election,” Clinton said at a conference in Istanbul. “I loved doing the job.” [But then we would have been stuck with that blithering idiot Al Gore until Bush was elected! Oh wait, I guess there’s more to this story…ed]

Is ‘Barack n Bones’ Obama thin as a rail because he’s skipping too many meals to run the country?

The weight of the world may be on his shoulders but there’s not much around President Barack Obama’s middle. The U.S. president has invoked the concern in America after walking out of a gym looking skinnier than ever. Clutching an energy drink, Mr Obama is pictured looking cheerful as he left the gym at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. But the influential U.S. website, The Drudge Report, which described him as ‘thin as a rail’, quoted an insider who said the president was working so hard that ‘yes he does occasionally skip meals’. [The headline alone is good for a laugh. Skipping meals because he is too busy “running the country?” Spare me the BS. This guy has golfed more in nine months than Bush did in three years. He has had more “date nights” since his inauguration with his wife James Brown than Bill Clinton has had with Hillary since their college years. All Obama has done is screw around ever since he was handed the keys to our White House so if he is getting skinny it sure as hell isn’t because he’s working too hard…ed]

Gibbs Says He Doesn’t Know if White House Has Reviewed Constitutionality of Forcing People to Buy Health Insurance

White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs said today that he does not know if White House lawyers have reviewed whether it is constitutional for the federal government to order individuals to buy health insurance and said that the White House is not seriously considering the concerns of people such as Sen. Orrin Hatch (R.-Utah) who believe the mandate is not constitutionally justified. This was the second time in two weeks that Gibbs had dismissed concerns that the Constitution does not give the federal government the power to force individuals to purchase items the government wants them to purchase. [Just goes to show you how this administration feels about our Constitution…ed]

House Republicans Find 111 New ‘Bureaucracies’ in Health Care Bill

House Republicans claimed Monday that the health care reform bill pushed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi would create a whopping 111 new “federal bureaucracies.” In its latest attempt to portray the Democrats’ reform package as an unwieldy expansion of federal government in the health care sector, the House Republican Conference circulated what it called a list of “new boards, bureaucracies, commissions and programs” created in the House health care bill. Among some off the new agencies, the list cites a Health Insurance Exchange; the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation; the Public Health Investment Fund; the Public Health Workforce Corps; an Assistant Secretary for Health Information; the Food and Drug Administration Office of Women’s Health; grant programs for alternative medical liability laws, infant mortality programs and other issues; and about 100 other government-sponsored creations. “That ought to tell you all that we need to know, that we’re going to have 1,990 pages of legislation,” House Minority Leader John Boehner said in an interview Sunday. “The word ‘shall’ exists in this bill 3,345 times.” [Not all that surprising considering the Democrats are all about government interference in our lives from before we are born til the day we get the thumbs down from a death panel…ed]

Behold a Trojan Pony

Last week the Congressional Budget Office “scored” the House of Representatives’ revised health insurance “public option” and found it would charge premiums higher than those of private insurance and attract only six million buyers. Thus, the growing worry that a public option would undercut private policies and soon drive them out of business seemed to evaporate. Speaker Pelosi, cheerleader for a “public option,” gloated that the consolidated House bill came in under President Obama’s declared ceiling cost of $900 billion and would not add to the deficit. The case for passage seemed airtight — for the moment. House liberals had wheeled in a Trojan Pony (too small to be a horse and, unlike the Trojan Horse, it couldn’t hold enough soldiers to rout the enemy). [Pass this article on to those who are on the fence over this Democrat plan for the government takeover of our healthcare system…ed]

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